Introducing FrankenMac

[maxcelcat]

I am such a freakin' nerd, and I can prove it. Consider the picture below:

(Click it for a bigger version.)

That, folks, is a dual processor G4 Macintosh, hacked together from parts from Ebay and a Donor Mac, plus a heat sink from a PII processor! Not to mention a lump of copper between it and the processors... Might just go check that it's not getting too warm :-)

Tomorrow I might try and find a case for it.

Man, this took a while, I started acquiring parts for this back in... Shit, it must have been 2004. It only came together recently when my cousin gave me a Mac which was identical to the model I was trying to assemble!

Comments

Emac

[maxcelcat]

Dude, I'm not sure. I got my parts from a stand-alone G4.

I'd be surprised if an eMac had a VGA connector of any kind - internal or external - Apple have a habit of making their hardware very very specific!

Re: Emac

[jeremy visser (from livejournal.com)]

Mine actually does have external VGA -- I've used it! Not only that, but it uses a mini proprietary connector to get the VGA socket, and in Linux, it shows up as "DVI", so I would suspect it's possible to do DVI with it if you have the right plug.

Re: Emac

[maxcelcat]

Weird. I wonder why they put an external plug on 'em? Still, I suppose you could use it to run two monitors (I'm guessing)...